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VENEREAL    DISEASE 
ORDINANCES 


COMPILATION  OF  SUGGESTED  AND  ADJUDICATED 

ORDINANCES    WHICH    HAVE    PROVED 

SUCCESSFUL  IN  COMBATING 

VENEREAL  DISEASES 


PR£PA2t£D  BY  DIRECTION  OF  THE  SURGEOW  GENERAL 


V.  D.  BULLETIN  NO.  39 


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.IAN  15  1938 


WASHINGTOWs- 

GOVERNMENT  PRINTING*b^gICE 

1919 


TREASURY  DEPARTMENT 
UNITED  STATES  PUBLIC  HEALTH  SERVICE 


ENEREAL 
ORDINA 


DISEASE 
NCES 


COMPILATION  OF  SUGGESTED  AND  ADJUDICATED 

ORDINANCES    WHICH    HAVE    PROVED 

SUCCESSFUL  IN   COMBATING 

VENEREAL  DISEASES 


PREPARED  BY  DIRECTION  OF  THE  SURGEON  GENERAL 


V.  D.  BULLETIN  NO.  39 


WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT  PRINTING  OFFICE 

1919 


PREFACE. 

These  measures  are  recommended  for  municipal  enactment,  with 
tlie  suggestion  that  in  every  case  they  be  examined  by  competent  local 
counsel  for  changes  in  form,  or  in  substance  if  necessary,  dictated 
by  special  constitutional,  legislative,  or  charter  considerations. 

It  is  manifestly  impossible  to  prepare  forms  of  ordinances  which 
Avillj  in  the  original  wording,  exactly  fit  the  varying  local  requirements. 
The  pui'pose  of  the  several  ordinances  contained  in  this  pamphlet  is 
only  to  suggest  in  substance  desirable  and  effective  legislation. 
Changes  in  titles,  enacting  clauses,  penalty  provisions,  and  other 
formal  or  administrative  details  generally  may  be  found  necessary. 

It  is  presumed  that  every  city  has  general  legislation  prohibiting 
prostitution,  pandering,  and  the  keeping  of  disorderly  houses,  and  the 
suggested  measures  are  supplemental  to  such  general  legislation. 

Each  of  these  suggested  ordinances  has  been  in  successful  opera- 
tion in  different  cities  and  has  been  found  effective  in  its  particular 
phase  of  the  general  fight  on  prostitution  as  the  greatest  cause  of  the 
spread  of  venereal  diseases. 

Therefore,  it  is  further  suggested  that  alterations  of  text  be  con- 
fined as  much  as  possible  to  purely  formal  considerations. 


COMPILATION  OF  SUGGESTED  AND  ADJUDICATED  ORDINANCES  WHICH 
HAVE  PROVED  SUCCESSFUL  IN  COMBATING  VENEREAL  DISEASES, 
WITH  EXPUNATIONS  OF  EACH  ORDINANCE. 


To  combat  effectively  the  spread  of  venereal  diseases,  opportunity 
for  contact  between  divseased  persons  and  their  prospective  victims 
must  be  made  difficult  and  reduced  to  the  lowest  degree.  Infected 
men  and  women  who  will  not  take  treatment  for  their  ailment  or  who, 
by  their  conduct,  expose  healthy  persons  to  infection,  should  be  recog- 
nized as  a  dangerous  menace  to  the  community  and  be  isolated.  Most 
contacts  which  result  in  disease  come  from  acts  of  prostitution.  This 
institution  has  heretofore  been  thought  necessary  by  some  j)eople  who 
are  otherwise  regarded  as  intelligent.  The  disease  feature  of  prosti- 
tution was  either  ignored  or  regarded  as  an  acquisition  to  be  antici- 
pated by  all  normal  men.  That  commercialized  prostitution  could 
be  suppressed  has  been  denied. 

Many  lessons  have  been  derived  from  the  world  war.  Not  the  least 
of  these  has  been  from  the  Government's  successful  war  on  venereal 
diseases  and  the  greatest  cause  of  its  spread — prostitution. 

In  mobilizing  the  tremendous  force  of  man  power  and  wealth  to 
preserve  the  Nation,  the  large  waste  due  to  preventable  causes  was 
reduced  wherever  possible.  Recognizing  that  a  soldier  infected  with 
venereal  disease  was  imfitted  for  service  and,  in  addition,  became  a 
drain  on  the  resources  of  the  country.  Congress  passed  legislation 
giving  jurisdiction  to  the  Federal  authorities  to  suppress  prostitution 
in  the  vicinity  of  cantonments  and  Army  camps.  As  a  consequence 
of  the  enforcement  of  these  laws  and  of  instruction  given  to  the  men 
on  the  danger  of  venereal  diseases,  the  American  Army  achieved  the 
lowest  rate  of  noneffectives  due  to  venereal  diseases  in  its  history, 
and  the  lowest  rate  of  any  large  army  in  the  world. 

Unfortunately,  the  Government  had  no  poAver  to  protect  young  men 
of  the  country  prior  to  induction  into  the  service.  That,  of  course, 
was  a  matter  of  State  and  municipal  law  enforcement.  Of  the  200,000 
cases  of  venereal  disease  in  the  Army,  over  160,000  were  brought  in 
from  civilian  life.    The  contrast  is  an  astounding  one. 

Notwithstanding  that  millions  of  young  men  were  taken  from 
home  restraint  and  required  to  live  rugged  lives  in  camp  and  bar- 
racks, the  percentage  of  venereal  infection  was  only  one-sixth  of 
that  of  the  men  coming  into  the  Army  fresh  from  home. 

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8  VENEREAL  DISEASE   ORDINANCES. 

Comparisons  with  conditions  existing  in  other  armies  demonstrate 
that  this  remarkable  achievement  is  due  to  the  program  of  the  Army 
authorities  in  stimulating  strict  enforcement  of  laws  against  prostitu- 
tion, together  with  proper  instruction  on  the  dangers  of  venereal 
diseases. 

Every  city,  large  or  small,  can  make  a  record  of  freedom  from 
venereal  diseases  by  adopting  and  enforcing  measures  directed  against 
the  cause  of  their  spread.  At  the  request  of  the  Government,  many 
cities  passed  ordinances  recommended,  and  by  energetic  enforcement 
thereof  showed  a  wholehearted  cooperation. 

To  aid  all  cities  to  combat  successfully  the  spread  of  venereal  dis- 
ease several  ordinances  have  been  compiled.  Selection  of  these  is 
based  on  the  splendid  results  reported  from  many  cities  where  they 
have  been  vigorously  enforced.  It  should  be  understood,  however, 
that  something  more  than  the  mere  adoption  of  these  ordinances  is 
necessary  to  accomplish  results. 

Prostitution  is  an  age-long  evil  and  dies  hard.  Many  unscrupu- 
lous people  are  willing  to  receive  profit  by  assisting  in  its  perpetua- 
tion. As  public  opinion  awakens  and  remonstrance  is  made,  those 
engaged  in  the  "profession"  become  more  secretive  in  conducting 
the  business. 

The  prostitutes  are  driven  from  the  street-floor  cribs,  in  open  red- 
light  districts,  to  upstairs  rooms.  If  parlor  houses  are  closed,  the 
inmates  seek  other  quarters.  The  point  to  be  constantly  kept  in 
mind  is  that  prostitution  must  be  suppressed,  no  matter  in  what  form 
it  finds  expression.  It  should  be  relentlessly  harassed  until  the  profit 
is  altogether  gone  and  opportunity  for  its  disease-spreading  votaries 
to  transact  business  is  eliminated.  That  requires  constant  vigilance 
on  the  part  of  officials. 

No  mayor  or  laiv- enforcing  oj^icial  with  self-respect  should  admit 
his  hiahility  to  cope  successfully  with  disease-spreading  prostitutes 
who  are  dedicating  their  lives  to  the  destruction  of  the  human  race. 
Such  an  admission  is  one  of  incompetence  and  unworthy  the  trust 
reposed  in  him  hy  the  community. 

If  the  vice  interests  and  prostitutes  ply  their  trade  in  hotels  and 
rooming  houses,  the  practice  can  be  stopped  or  the  hotels  closed. 

By  removing  the  base  of  operations,  opportunity  for  business  is 
reduced.  If  the  prostitute  works  in  league  with  taxi  drivers,  means 
can  be  made  available  for  suppression  of  this  traffic. 

Prostitution.^  with  its  spread  of  venereal  diseases.,  flourishes  only 
when  city  oficials  tolerate  it,  or  are  complacent  in  their  efforts  to 
destroy  it.  Men  and  women  engaged  in  the  trade  readily  under- 
stand whether  the  authorities  are  really  in  earnest  or  merely  making 
spasmodic  efforts  for  effect.    Occasional  raids  and  imposition  of  fines 


VENEREAL  DISEASE   ORDINANCES.  9 

are  adjuncts  of  the  business  and  not  to  be  feared.  But  when  word 
goes  forth  that  a  city  has  determined  to  free  itself  for  all  time  of 
syphilis  and  gonorrhea  spreaders  and  that  the  machinery  of  law  will 
be  merciless  in  its  enforcement,  the  prostitutes  and  pimps  have 
reached  the  end  of  their  business  career  in  that  city. 

Many  prostitutes  quit  their  business  when  the  avenue  for  opera- 
tions is  closed.  While  moral  reformation  does  not  necessarily  fol- 
low, "the  business"  is  no  longer  profitable.  Most  prostitutes  look 
forward  to  the  day  when  they  can  "  quit  the  life,"  and  a  large  num- 
ber gi-asp  this  opportunity  of  so  doing.  It  is  a  misdirected  chivalry 
that  bewails  the  "  persecution  "  of  prostitutes.  They  recognize  that 
the  most  terrible  injustice  to  themselves  is  to  require  or  permit  them 
to  remain  prostitutes.  Some  of  the  women  go  to  other  cities  where 
the  authorities,  through  neglect  of  duty,  extend  a  tacit  welcome  to 
new  spreaders  of  virulent  disease. 

Is  your  city,  through  lack  of  laws  or  enforcement  thereof,  waiting 
with  open  arms  the  coming  of  disease  carriers,  so  that  your  boys 
and  eventually  your  girls  will  be  infected  with  the  most  terrible 
scourge  of  civilization? 

A  few  years  ago  every  city  had  a  red-light  district,  some  with 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  inmates.  In  addition,  hundreds  of  prosti- 
tutes, more  exclusive  in  their  patronage,  were  scattered  in  hotels  and 
private  homes.  Where  are  all  these  women  and  their  successors 
now?  An  enlightened  public  has  closed  the  districts  and  notwith- 
standing our  increased  population  the  number  of  professional  prosti- 
tutes is  far  smaller. 

The  United  States  Public  Health  Service,  with  the  cooperation  of 
State  boards  of  health,  is  determined  to  wage  a  relentless  and  suc- 
cessful war  on  venereal  diseases.  It  is  the  desire  of  the  Public  Health 
Service  to  have  healthful  conditions  prevail  throughout  the  country. 
To  achieve  this  the  assistance  and  cooperation  w^ith  their  State 
board  of  health  of  every  city  and  village  is  indispensable. 

Following  is  an  explanation  of  each  ordinance,  with  object  sought 
to  be  accomplished,  and  copies  of  such  ordinances : 
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ORDINANCE  A. 
GENERAL  VENEREAL  DISEASE  CONTROL  ORDINANCE. 

Ordinance  A  provides  for  the  comlmting  of  venereal  diseases. 
Many  of  the  States,  through  the  State  boards  of  health,  have  adopted 
similar  regulations.  Manj^  of  the  State  legislatures  have  also  enacted 
into  law  the  same  provisions.  It  is  generally  observed  that  general 
health  regulations  are  not  enforced  to  the  proper  extent  by  police 
officers.  The  matter  of  enforcement  is  usually  left  to  the  health 
officials  themselves.  It  is  highly  desirable  that  the  cities  enact  this 
ordinance,  so  that  the  police  in  incorporated  cities  will  be  charged 
with  an  important  phase  of  the  venereal-disease  program,  i.  e.,  the 
apprehension  of  pimps  and  prostitutes.  In  a  large  degree  the.  sup- 
pression of  prostitution  is  a  city  problem  and  the  prostitutes  are 
tried  in  the  municipal  courts. 

The  ordinance  provides  that  all  prostitutes  and  persons  reasonably 
suspected  of  having  venereal  disease  in  the  infectious  ^stages  shall  be 
examined  by  the  health  officer  or  under  his  direction.  Unless  the 
State  makes  available  a  detention  hospital,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  city 
to  provide  a  place  where  diseased  prostitutes  can  be  detained  and 
treated  until  danger  of  infection  is  over,  A  woman  regularly  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  prostitution  may  have  from  5  to  30  or  more 
contacts  in  a  working  day.  It  is  readily  evident  that  a  diseased 
prostitute  during  the  course  of  a  few  day's  operations  may  infect 
large  numbers  of  men.  who,  in  turn,  carry  the  disease  to  their  wives 
or  other  women. 

It  is  of  paramount  importance  that  every  carrier  of  disease  who 
by  his  or  her  conduct  is  liable  to  expose  others  to  infection  should  be 
isolated  where  such  opportunity  will  not  be  present.  If  a  house  is 
on  fire,  the  energy  of  the  firemen  is  expended  in  quenching  the 
flames  in  the  house  where  it  originates  and,  if  not  too  late  to  do  so, 
to  confine  the  blaze  to  such  house,  thereby  preventing  the  spread  to 
adjoining  buildings,  which  means  a  general  conflagration.  Without 
similar  control  of  venereal-disease  carriers,  there  is  grave  danger  of 
a  large  percentage  of  healthy  men  and  women  eventually  becoming 
infected  with  the  disease. 
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ORDINANCE  A. 

An  Ordinance  Providing  for  the  combating  of  venereal  diseases,  and  declaring 

an  emergency. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Venereal  diseases  dangerous  to  pttblic  health. — ■ 
Syphilis,  gonorrhea,  and  chancroid,  hereinafter  designated  venereal 
diseases,  are  hereby  recognized  and  declared  to  be  contagious,  infec- 
tious, communicable,  and  dangerous  to  the  public  health. 

Sec.  2.  Venereal  diseases  to  be  reported. — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  every  licensed  physician,  of  every  superintendent  or  manager  of 
a  hospital  or  dispensary,  and  of  every  person  who  gives  treatment 
for  a  venereal  disease,  or  is.  consulted  by  a  person  having  venereal 
disease,  or  makes  a  diagnosis  of  a  case  of  veneral  disease,  to  mail  to 

the  city  health  officer  of  the  city  of a  card  supplied  by  said 

health  officer,  stating  the  age,  sex,  color,  marital  condition,  and  occu- 
pation of  such  diseased  person,  the  nature  and  previous  duration 
of  such  disease,  and  its  probable  origin  or  source  of  infection,  such 
card  to  be  mailed  within  three  days  after  the  first  examination  of 
such  diseased  person :  Provided^  That,  except  as  hereinafter  required, 
the  name  and  address  of  such  diseased  person  shall  not  be  reported  to 
the  city  health  officer. 

Sec.  3.  Persons  infected  with  venereal  diseases  to  be  given  a 
circular  of  information. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  licensed 
physician  and  of  every  other  person  who  treats  a  person  infected 
with  venereal  disease  to  give  to  such  person  at  the  first  examination 
a  circular  of  information  and  advice  concerning  venereal  diseases 
furnished  by  the  city  health  officer  and,  in  addition,  to  give  to  such 
diseased  person  a  copy  of  this  ordinance  and  to  report  to  the  city 
health  officer  that  such  diseased  person  has  received  the  two  docu- 
ments herein  specified. 

Sec.  4.  Change  of  physician  to  be  reported  by  patient  to  physi- 
cian FIRST  consulted. — When  a  person  applies  to  a  physician  or 
other  person  for  treatment  of  a  venereal  disease  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  physician  or  person  consulted  to  inquire  of  and  ascertain  from 
the  person  seeking  treatment  whether  such  person  has  heretofore 
consulted  with  or  been  treated  by  any  other  physician  or  person; 
and  if  so,  to  ascertain  the  name  and  address  of  the  physician  or 
person  last  consulted.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  applicant  for 
treatment  to  furnish  this  information,  and  a  refusal  to  do  so  or 
falsely  stating  the  name  and  address  of  the  physician  or  person  con- 
sulted shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of  this  ordinance.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  physician  whom  the  applicant  seeks  to  and  does  consult 
or  employ  to  notify  the  physician  last  consulted  or  employed  of  the 
change  of  advisers,  such  notification  to  be  made  upon  a  form  fur- 
nished for  that  purpose  by  the  city  health  officer.    Should  the  physi- 

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12  VENEEEAL   DISEASE    ORDINANCES. 

cian  or  person  previously  consulted  fail  to  receive  sucli  notice  witliin 
ten  days  after  the  last  appearance  of  such  venereally  diseased  person, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  physician  to  report  to  the  city  health 
officer  the  name  and  address  of  such  venereally  diseased  person. 

Sec,  5.  Protection  of  others  from  infection  by  venereally  dis- 
eased PERSONS. — Upon  receipt  of  a  report  of  a  case  of  venereal  dis- 
ease by  name  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  health  officer  to  institute 
such  measures  for  the  protection  of  other  persons  from  infection  by 
such  venereally  diseased  person  as  said  health  officer  is  already  em- 
powered to  use  to  prevent  the  spread  of  other  contagious,  infectious, 
or  communicable  diseases. 

Sec.  6.  Eeforts  to  be  confidential. — All  information  and  reports 
concerning  persons  infected  with  venereal  diseases  shall  be  confiden- 
tial and  shall  be  inaccessible  to  the  public,  except  in  so  far  as  pub- 
licity may  attend  the  performance  of  the  duty  imposed  upon  the  city 
health  officer  by  this  ordinance  and  the  rules  of  the  State  board  of 
health  and  law^s  of  the  State  cf . 

Sec.  7.  Parents  responsible  for  the  compliance  of  minors  with 
the  requirements  of  regulations. — The  parents  of  minors  infected 
with  venereal  diseases  and  living  with  said  parents  shall  be  legally 
responsible  for  the  compliance  of  such  minors  with  the  requirem-ents 
of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  8.  Suspected  cases  to  be  investigated. — In  all  suspected  cases 
of  venereal  disease  in  the  infectious  stages  the  city  health  officer  shall 
immediately  use  every  available  means  to  determine  whether  the  per- 
son or  persons  so  suspected  of  being  infected  are  suffering  from  said 
diseases,  or  any  of  them,  and  whenever  any  one  of  said  diseases  is 
found  to  exist  the  city  health  officer  shall,  whenever  possible,  ascer- 
tain the  sources  of  such  infection.  In  such  investigations  the  city 
health  officer  is  hereby  vested  with  full  powers  of  inspection,  exami- 
nation, and  isolation  of  all  persons  as  provided  herein. 

Sec.  9.  Powers  and  duties  of  health  oi'ficer. — It  is  hereby  made 
the  duty  of  the  city  health  officer  and  he  is  hereby  directed  and  em- 
powered : 

(a)  To  make  examinations  of  persons  reasonably  suspected  of  hav- 
ing syphilis  in  the  infectious  stages,  or  chancroid,  or  gonococcus  in- 
fection (owing  to  the  prevalence  of  such  diseases  among  prostitutes, 
pimps,  procurers,  persons  gnilty  of  lewd  and  lascivious  conduct,  and 
persons  who  associate  w^ith  prostitutes,  all  such  persons  shall  be  con- 
sidered within  the  above  class). 

(h)  To  quarantine  or  isolate  pei'sons  infected  with  any  of  said  dis- 
eases whenever  quarantine  or  isolation  is  necessary  to  protect  the 
public  health.  In  establishing  quarantine  the  city  health  officer  shall 
define  the  limits  of  the  area  in  which  the  persons  reasonably  sus- 
pected or  known  to  have  syphilis,  chancroid,  or  gonococcus  infection 
and  his  or  her  immediate  attendant  are  to  remain,  and  no  persons, 
other  than  the  attending  physicians,  shall  enter  or  leave  the  area 
without  the  permission  of  the  city  health  officer. 

{(■)  In  maldng  examinations  and  inspections  of  women  for  the  pur- 
pose of  ascertaining  the  existence  of  syphilis,  chancroid,  or  gono- 
coccus infection,  to  appoint  women  physicians  for  said  purposes 
where  the  services  of  a  woman  physician  are  requested  or  demanded 
by  the  person  examined. 


YENEEEAL  DISEASE   ORDINANCES.  13 

{d)  In  cases  of  quarantine  or  isolation,  not  to  terminate  said 
quarantine  or  isolation  until  the  cases  have  become  noninfectious. 

{e)  Cases  of  gonococcns  infection  are  to  be  regarded  as  infectious 
until  at  least  three  successive  smears  taken  not  less  than  forty-eight 
hours  apart  fail  to  show  gonococci. 

(/)  Inasmuch  as  prostitution  is  the  most  prolific  source  of  syphilis 
and  gonococcus  infection,  the  city  health  officer  and  all  other  officers 
shall  use  every  proper  means  of  suppressing  the  same,  and  all  such, 
officers  are  hereby  prohibited  from  issuing  certificates  or  other  evi- 
dence of  freedom  from  venereal  diseases. 

{g)  To  keep  all  records  of  said  inspection  and  examinations  from 
public  inspection  and  to  make  every  reasonable  effort  to  keep  secret 
the  identity  of  those  affected  by  venereal  disease  control  measures, 
as  far  as  maj^  be  consistent  with  the  protection  of  the  public  health. 

Sec.  10.  Detention  hospital. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city 
health  officer  to  use  only  such  building  or  buildings  for  isolation 
purposes  under  this  article  as  shall  be  first  provided  or  accepted  by 
the  city  council.  The  city  health  officer  shall  make  suitable  adminis- 
trative rules  for  the  conduct  of  said  hospital. 

Sec.  11.  Isolation. — Whenever  it  is  necessary  for  the  protection 
of  the  public  health  that  persons  infected  with  venereal  diseases  be 
isolated,  the  city  health  officer  shall  isolate  such  diseased  persons  in 
said  detention  hospitals  and  cause  to  be  administered  to  such  persons 
a  proper  course  of  treatment. 

Sec.  12.  In  lieu  of  quarantine  or  isolation,  the  city  health  officer 
may,  when  he  deems  it  to  the  best  interest  of  the  public,  release  a 
A^enereally  diseased  person  under  the  following  agreement,  which 
shall  be  signed  by  such  person: 

I, ,  residing  at ,  liereby 

acknowledge  the  fact  tliat  I  am  at  this  time  infected  witli 

and  agree  to  place  mj'self  binder  the  medical  care  of , 

(Name  of  physician  or  clinic.) 

,  within hours,  and  that 

(Address.) 
I  will  remain  imder  treatment  of  said  physician  or  clinic  until  released  by  the 
health   officer  of  ,  or  until  my  case   is  trans- 
ferred with  the  approval  of  said  health  officer  to  another  regularly  licensed 
physician  or  an  approved  clinic. 

I  hereby  agree  to  report  to  the  health  officer  within  four  days  after  beginning 
treatment  as  above  agreed,  and  will  bring  with  me  a  statement  from  the  above 
physician  or  clinic  of  the  medical  treatment  applied  in  my  case,  and  thereafter 
will  report  as  often  as  may  be  demanded  of  me  by  the  health  officer. 

I  agree  further,  that  I  will  take  all  precautions  recommended  by  the  health 
officer  to  prevent  the  spread  of  the  above  disease  to  other  persons,  and  that  I 
will  not  perform  any  act  which  would  exjwse  other  persons  to  the  above  disease, 
and  especially  the  act  of  sexiial  intercourse. 

I  agree,  until  finally  released  by  the  health  officer,  to  notify  him  of  any  change 
of  address  and  to  obtain  his  consent  before  moving  my  abode  outside  his 
jurisdiction. 


(Signature.) 


(Date.) 


All  persons  signing  the  above  agTeement  .shall  observe  its  pro- 
visions and  any  failure  so  to  do  shall  be  a  violation  of  this  ordinance. 
All  such  agreements  shall  be  filed  with  the  health  officer. 


14  VENEREAL  DISEASE   OKDIKANCES. 

Sec.  13.  Spread  of  venereal,  diseases  unlawful. — It  shall  l->e  unlaw- 
ful for  anj-  person  to  infect  any  other  person  with  any  of  the  said 
venereal  diseases,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  perform 
or  commit  any  act  which  exposes  any  other  person  to  infection  witli 
any  of  the  said  diseases. 

Sec.  14.  Druggists  to  keep  record  of  sales  of  drugs  for  venereal 
DISEASES. — Any  druggist  or  other  person  who  sells  any  di'ug,  com- 
pound, specific,  or  preparation  of  any  kind  used  for  or  reasonably 
intended  to  be  used  for  the  cure  of  any  of  said  venereal  diseases  shall 
keep  a  record  of  the  name,  sex,  and  address  of  the  person  making 
such  purchase.  A  copy  of  said  record  shall  be  mailed  each  week  to 
the  city  health  officer,  on  blank  to  be  furnished  by  the  health  officer. 

Sec.  15.  Order  of  city  health  officer. — It  shall  be  unlawful  for 
any  j^erson  to  neglect  or  refuse  to  obey  any  order  of  the  cit}'  health  offi- 
cer authorized  by  this  ordinance  or  to  interfere  with  or  obstruct  said 
officer  in  the  performance  of  his  duties  herein  required. 

Sec.  16.  Violations. — Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  five 
hundred  dollars  ($500)  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  city  jail  for  a 
period  not  to  exceed  six  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment. 

Sec.  17.  Emergency. — Inasmuch  as  this  ordinance  is  necessarv'  for 
the  immediate  preservation  of  the  public  health,  peace,  and  safety 

of  the  city  of  in  this:  That  said  diseases  are  so  prevalent 

that  steps  must  be  taken  immediately  to  control  their  spread,  there- 
fore an  emergency  is  hereby  declared  to  exist,  and  this  ordinance 
shall  be  in  force  and  effect  from  and  after  its  passage  by  the  council. 

NoTH. — 1.  The  power  to  arrest,  examine,  and  detain  venereallj'  infected  persons  whorfc 
condition  is  such  as  to  spread  disease  is  within  the  police  power. 

Ex  parte  Hardcastle  (Tex.),  208  S.  W.,  531   (decided  Jan.  22,  1919.) 
State  ex  rel.  McBride  v.  Superior  Court  of  King  County   (Wash.),  174  Pac,  973 
(decided  Aug.  22,  1918). 

2.  Laws  or  ordinances  enacted  under  the  police  power  for  the  protection  of  the  public 
health,  reasonably  adapted  to  that  end,  are  not  unconstitutional  because  they  may  inci- 
dently  deprive  individuals  of  their  property  or  its  use  without  compensation  or  interfere 
■with  their  personal  liberty. 

Cal.  Reduction  Co.  v.  Sanitary  Reduction  Works,  199  U.  S.,  306;  50  L.  Ed.,  204. 

3.  "  The  tendency  of  judicial  and  public  opinion  is  to  translate  the  maxim  salun  populi 
suprema  lex — the  public  health  is  the  highest  law — and  whenever  a  police  regulation  is 
reasonably  demonstrated  to  be  a  promoter  of  public  health  all  constitutionally  guaranteed 
rights  nitist  give  way."  Tiedeman,  State  and  Federal  Control  of  Persons  and  Property, 
par  169  Soe  also  Freund  on  Police  Power,  sec.  446  ;  MeCJehee,  Dtte  Process  of  Law.  301  ; 
Barbier  v.  Connollv,  118  U.  S.,  31  ;  Haverty  et  ux.  r.  Bass,  66  Me.,  73  ;  Hurst  v.  Warner, 
47  Am.  St.  Rep.,  543  ;  State  v.  Milwaukee,  133  Am.  St.  Rep.,  1061. 

4.  Health  ordinance  of  the  city  of  Seattle  providing  for  quarantine  of  venereally  in- 
fected persons  not  only  held  reasonable  and  constitutional,  but  a  statutory  provision  that 
the  opinion  of  the  State  health  officer  be  final  as  t<>  whether  or  not  a  persaa  Is  infected 
with  dangerous,  contagious,  or  infectious  disease  was  sustained. 

State  ex  rel.  McBride  v.  Superior  Court,  supra. 


ORDINANCE  B. 

HOTEL  AND  ROOMING  HOUSE  LICENSING  ORDINANCE. 

Ordinance  B  is  the  hotel  and  rooming-honse  licensing  ordinance. 
The  license  feature  is  not  for  revenue  purposes  but  is  designed  to 
give  power  of  regulation.  Since  the  closing  of  red-light  districts 
I)rostitutes  have  sought  refuge  in  hotels,  rooming  houses,  and  lodging 
houses.  In  the  cheaper  hotels  they  are  very  welcome,  because  high 
rentals  are  exacted.  Many  prostitutes  conduct  rooming  houses  as  a 
shield  to  their  principal  occupation.  In  other  places  so-called  cham- 
bermaids and  hired  help  are  there  solely  for  purposes  of  prostitution. 
In  the  more  pretentious  hotels  prostitutes  will  operate  through  the 
connivance  or  assistance  of  bell  boys  and  elevator  operators.  It 
should  be  understood  without  question  that  rarely  could  prostitution 
be  carried  on  without  the  knowledge  and  consent  of  the  manager 
of  such  hotel. 

This  ordina-nce  requires  that  a  licensee  shall  be  of  good  moral  char- 
acter. It  also  makes  unlawful  the  usual  subterfuges.  Realizing  the 
difficulty  of  convicting  the  proprietor  of  a  hotel  before  a  jury  of  an 
actual  criminal  offense  involving  criminal  intent,  revocation  of  the 
license  is  vested  in  the  city  council,  or  power  that  grants  the  license, 
upon  a  proper  showing.  This  ordinance  is  not  intended  to  supplant 
the  injunction  and  abatement  law  but  will  be  found  more  adaptable. 
In  cities  where  this  ordinance  has  been  properly  enforced  prostitu- 
tion has  been  reduced  to  a  minimum.  A  hotel  proprietor  was  forced 
to  conduct  strictly  legitimate  business  or  close  house. 

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ORDINANCE  B. 

An   Ordinance   Providing   for   the   reguliition   of  hotels,    rooming  houses,   antl 

lodging  houses  within  the  city  of ,  providing  penalties  for  the  violation 

thereof,  and  declaring  an  emergency. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  That  no  person  shall  conduct,  keep,  manage,  operate, 
or  cause  to  be  conducted,  kept,  managed,  or  operated,  either  as  owner, 
lessor,  lessee,  agent,  or  attorney,  any  hotel,  rooming  house,  or  lodging 

house  within  the  corporat^a  limits   of  the  city  of  without 

having  first  obtained  a  license  from  the  city  of so  to  do.    All 

said  licenses  shall  be  issued  annually  and  shall  expire  December 
thirty-first  of  each  year.  The  fee  for  each  license  shall  be  one  dollar 
($1.00),  and  no  license  shall  be  issued  for  less  amount. 

Sec.  2.  For  tlie  purposes  of  this  ordinance  the  word  "  person  '* 
shall  mean  and  include  natural  persons,  copartnerships,  corporations, 
and  associations,  and  shall  include  persons  of  both  sexes.  The  word 
"  house  "  shall  mean  and  include  liotels,  rooming  and  lodging  houses. 

Sec.  3.  The  commissioner  of  public  safety  shall  examine  into  and 
investigate  the  character  and  qualifications  of  applications  for  licenses 
within  the  meaning  of  this  ordinance  a)id  report  to  the  council  his 
recommendation  as  to  whether  or  not  a  license  shall  be  issued  to  such 
applicant. 

Sec.  4.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  contained  shall  be  construed  to 
deprive  the  city  of  power  to  revoke  an}^  license  issued  as  herein  pro- 
vided. 

Sec.  5.  No  license  shall  be  issued  to  any  i:>erson  to  conduct  a  hotel, 

rooming  house,  or  lodging  house  within  the  city  of  unless 

such  person  is  of  ascertained  good  moral  character;  and  when  appli- 
cation for  such  license  is  made  the  applicant  shall  present  himself  in 
person  to  the  commissioner  of  public  safety,  and  at  such  time  present 
to  said  commissioner  satisfactory  proof  of  good  moral  character. 
When  application  for  a  license  is  made  by  or  on  behalf  of  a  copart- 
nership, corporation,  or  association,  such  application  shall  be  made 
by  the  manager,  officer,  agent,  or  other  person  who  will  have  the 
charge  and  management  of  such  hotel,  rooming  house,  or  lodging 
house. 

Sec.  6.  No  license  issued  as  in  this  ordinance  provided  shall  be 
transferred  or  assigned. 

Seo.  7.  No  person  to  whom  a  license  vsliall  be  issued,  as  provided  in 
this  ordinance,  shall  suffer  or  permit  the  hotel,  rooming  house,  or 
lodging  house  to  which  such  license  relates  to  be  used  as  a  house  of 
ill-fame,  brothel,  bawdy  house,  or  disorderly  house,  for  the  purpose 
of  prostitution,  fornication,  or  lewdness;  or  suffer  any  lascivious  co- 
habitation, adultery,  fornication,  or  other  immoral  practice  to  be 
carried  on  therein. 

Sec.  8.  Every  person  to  whom  a  license  shall  have  been  issued  to 
conduct  a  hotel,  rooming  or  lodging  house  shall  at  all  times  keep  a 
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VENEREAL   DISEASE   ORDHJTANCES.  17 

standard  hotel  register,  in  which  shall  be  inscribed  the  names  of  all 
guests  or  persons  renting  or  occupying  rooms  in  such  house,  which 
register  shall  be  signed  by  the  person  renting  a  room  or  rooms,  or  by 
some  one  under  his  direction.  Such  registration  must  be  made,  and 
after  the  name  or  names  so  inscribed  or  registered,  the  manager  of 
the  house,  or  his  agent,  shall  write  the  number  of  the  room  or  rooms 
which  such  guest  or  person  is  to  occupy,  together  with  the  time  when 
such  room  is  rented.  All  of  which  shall  be  done  before  such  person 
is  permitted  to  occupy  such  room  or  rooms.  Such  register  shall  be 
at  all  times  open  to  inspection  by  any  guest  of  the  house  wherein  such 
register  is  kept  and  to  any  executive  or  peace  officer  of  the  city  of 
or  of  the  State  of . 

Sec.  9.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  write  or  cause  to  be 
written  in  any  hotel  register  any  other  or  different  name  than  the 
true  name  of  such  person  or  the  name  by  which  such  person  is  gen- 
erally known. 

Sec.  10.  No  one  room  shall  be  assigned  to  two  persons  of  the  oppo- 
site sex  except  in  the  case  of  children  accompanied  by  parent  or 
guardian,  unless  such  persons  shall  be  registered  as  husband  and 
wife. 

Sec.  11.  Any  person  to  whom  a  license  shall  have  been  issued,  as 
provided  in  this  ordinance,  shall  cause  each  sleeping  room  and  apart- 
ment in  such  house  to  wliich  such  license  relates  to  be  numbered  in 
a  plain  and  conspicuous  manner,  the  number  to  be  placed  on  the  out- 
side of  the  door  to  such  room,  and  no  two  such  doors  shall  bear  the 
same  number. 

Sec.  12.  Where  a  license  shall  have  been  issued  to  any  copartner- 
ship, corporation,  or  association  to  conduct  a  hotel,  rooming  house, 
or  lodging  house,  any  person  having  charge,  management,  or  control 
of  such  hotel,  rooming  house,  or  lodging  house  shall  be  liable  to 
prosecution  for  any  violation  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  13.  For  the  purpose  of  determining  the  liability  of  any  per- 
son or  persons  to  prosecutions  for  violations  of  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance  it  shall  be  sufficient  to  show  that  such  person  was 
at  the  time  of  the  act  of  violation  complained  of  the  person  in  actual 
charge,  management,  or  control  of  the  house  in  which  such  act  is 
alleged  to  have  been  committed. 

Sec.  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  to  whom  a  license  is 
issued,  as  provided  in  this  ordinance,  to  display  such  license  in  a 
conspicuous  manner  in  the  office  of  the  hotel,  rooming  house,  or 
lodging  house  to  which  said  license  relates. 

Sec.15.  Any  officer  of  the  city  of  shall  have  the  right  to 

enter  into  and  upon  the  premises  of  any  hotel,  rooming  house,  or 
lodging  house  for  the  purpose  of  inspection,  at  any  reasonable  hour. 

Sec.  16.  The  council  may  cancel  any  license  issued  hereunder  for 
violation  of  any  provision  hereof.  Before  such  cancellation,  how- 
ever, the  licensee  shall  be  notified  and  shall  have  a  hearing  before 
the  council  if  demanded. 

Sec.  17.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance, upon  conviction  thereof  in  the  municipal  court,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  not  to  exceed  $500.00,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the 

city  jail  of  the  city  of for  a  period  not  to  exceed  six  months, 

or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 
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18  VENEREAL  DISEASE   ORDINANCES. 

Sec.  18.  Inasmuch  as  this  ordinance  is  necessary  for  the  ininie- 
diate  preservation  of  the  public  health,  peace,  and  safety  of  the 

city  of in  this,  that  many  rooming  and  lodging  houses  in 

the  city  are  being  conducted  by  persons  not  of  good  moral  character, 
and  are  being  used  for  iimnoral  purposes,  now,  therefore,  an  emer- 
gency is  hereby  declared  to  exist,  and  this  ordinance  shall  be  in  force 
and  effect  from  and  after  its  passage  by  the  council. 


ORDINANCE  C. 

AN  ORDINANCE  REGULATING  PUBLIC  VEHICLES. 

A  strictly  modern  form  of  soliciting  prostitution  has  developed 

since  the  closing  of  open  houses.     In  many  cities  men  desiring  to 

meet  immoral  women  can  gratify  their  wishes  by  employing  the 

first  taxi  driver  they  meet.     For  hire  public  automobiles  in  general 

have  proved   a   very   perplexing  problem.     The  women  will  have 

quarters   in   out-of-the-way   places   and   receive   customers  through 

the  paid  assistance  of  these  chauffeurs.     To  remedy  the  evil  this 

ordinance  has  been  prepared.    In  addition  to  the  penalty  provided 

for  violation  of  the  ordinance,  the  chauffeur's  license  should  bo 

revoked. 

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ORDINANCE  C. 

An  Ordinance  Prohibiting  the  use  of  public  vehicles  for  immoral  purposes,  pro- 
viding a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof,  and  declaring  an  emergency. 

The  City  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  driver  of  any  public  vehicle 
to  permit  any  person  to  occupy  or  use  such  vehicle  for  the  purpose  of 
prostitution,  lewTlness,  or  assignation  with  knowledge  or  reasonable 
cause  to  know  that  the  same  is  or  is  to  be  used  for  such  purposes,  or  to 
direct,  take,  or  transport  or  offer  or  agree  to  direct,  take,  or  transport 
any  person  to  any  building  or  place,  or  to  any  other  person,  with 
knowledge  or  reasonable  cause  to  know  that  the  purpose  of  such 
directing,  taking,  or  transporting  is  prostitution,  lewdness  or  assig- 
nation. 

Sec.  2.  The  terai  public  vehicle,  as  used  herein,  shall  mean  and  in- 
clude cabs,  taxicabs,  for  hire  automobiles,  and  all  other  vehicles  of  a 
similar  nature  engaged  in  the  transportation  of  persons  for  hire. 

Sec.  3.  Any  violation  of  this  ordinance  by  the  driver  of  any  public 
vehicle  shall  be  sufficient  gi'ound  for  the  revocation  of  any  license 
issued  to  said  driver,  or  for  the  operation  of  such  public  vehicle. 

Sec.  4.   (Penalty  clause.) 

Sec.  5.   (Emergency  clause.) 

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ORDINANCE  D. 

AN  ORDINANCE  REGULATING  PUBLIC  DANCE  HALLS. 

Ordinance  D  is  a  model  dancing-hall  license.  It  is  designed  to 
prevent  much  delinquency  now  traceable  to  certain  imregiilated 
amusements. 

The  impression  should  not  be  gained  that  it  is  desired  to  destroy 
pleasure.  On  the  contrary,  all  agencies  combating  venereal  disease 
desire  wholesome  means  of  recreation  and  enjoyment  made  available 
to  all  young  men  and  women.  The  fact  must  be  faced,  nevertheless, 
that  in  tracing  the  source  of  moral  delinquency  and  venereal  disease 
infection,  the  unregulated  dance  hall  has  contributed  the  largest  num- 
ber of  such  delinquents. 

The  ordinance  is  intended  to  remove  undesirable  features  now  ex- 
isting in  public  dances  and  to  throw  safeguards  around  the  young 
people  who  come  there  for  amusement.  Since  the  Government's  war 
on  prostitution  became  active,  many  prostitutes  have  sought  public 
dance  halls  for  assignation  purposes.  The  panderer  has  been  able  to 
secure  victims  from  the  public  dancing  hall.  Many  boys  and  girls 
frankly  admit  that  their  first  act  of  sexual  immorality  occurred  as* 
the  result  of  improper  association  at  public  dance  halls. 

Dance  halls,  from  the  nature  of  the  entertainment  offered,  hold  out 
unusual  opportunity  for  soliciting  to  prostitutes  and  pimps.  That 
they  have  not  missed  such  opportunity,  experience  in  every  city  with 
unregulated  public  dances  has  shown.  The  practice  of  admitting 
women  free  and  the  so-called  "  nickel "  dances,  have  furthered  this 
opportunity  for  solicitation.  A  prostitute,  at  little  or  no  expense, 
could  make  the  rounds  of  the  various  dance  halls  each  evening.  The 
ordinance  by  prohibiting  the  "  nickel "  dance,  and  requiring  an  ad- 
mission charge  for  women  will  lessen  this  evil  to  a  minimum,  and  will 
leave  the  amusement  of  dancing  to  be  enjoyed  by  those  who  seek  it  as 
a  wholesome  recreation.  The  regulation  against  pass-out  or  return 
checks  has  also  been  found  by  experience  very  effective  in  checking 

the  abuse  of  the  public  dance  by  prostitutes. 

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ORDINANCE  D. 

An  Oi'dinanee  To  provide  for  the  regulation  of  public  dance*  and  the  licensing 
and  regulation  of  public  dance  halls  and  penalties  for  violation  thereof. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to  hold  or  conduct  any  public 
dance,  or  to  hold  or  conduct  classes  in  dancing,  or  to  give  instruc- 
tion in  dancing  for  hire,  in  any  dance  hall  or  place  within  the 

limits  of  the  city  of  until  the  dance  hall  or  other  place  in 

which  the  same  may  be  held  shall  first  have  been  duly  licensed  as  a 
public  dance  hall.  The  fee  payable  for  each  license  granted  here- 
imder  shall  be  as  follows:  In  the  case  of  public  dance  halls  main- 
tained and  conducted  in  connection  Avith  regularly  established  in- 
struction in  dancing  and  exclusively  used  in  such  connection,  the 

annual  license  fee  shall  be dollars.    In  the  case  of  all  other 

public  dance  halls  the  annual  license  fee  shall  be dollars. 

Sec.  2.  No  license  for  a  public  dance  hall  shall  be  issued  until  it 
shall  be  found  that  the  place  for  which  it  is  issued  complies  with  and 
conforms  to  all  laws,  ordinances,  health,  and  fire  reguhitions  applica- 
ble thereto  and  is  properly  ventilated  and  supplied  with  separate  and 
sufficient  toilet  conveniences  for  each  sex,  and  is  a  safe  and  proper 
j)lace  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  shall  be  used.  Every  person  to 
whom  a  dance  hall  license  is  issued  shall  po-^t  the  same  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  the  dance  hall  cosored  ))y  such  license. 

Sec.  3.  The  license  of  any  public  dance  hall  may  be  revoked  for 
the  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  or  any  other  ordinance  or  law 
relating  to  such  places,  or  mle^  or  regidations  promulgated  there- 
under. If  at  any  time  the  license  of  a  public  dance  hall  shall  be 
revoked,  at  least  three  months  shall  elapse  before  another  license  or 
permit  shall  be  granted  to  the  mana^r,  owner,  or  lessee  of  such  dance 
halL 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  imlawful  for  any  person  to  liold  a  public  dance 
or  to  hold  or  conduct  chisses  in  dancing  without  having  first  obtained 
a  permit  therefor,  which  permit  shall  have  been  issued  at  least  forty- 
eight  hours  before  the  dance  authorized  thereunder  is  to  be  held: 
ProridpfJ.  horrever^  That  an  annual  ]>ermit  may  be  issued  for  dances 
or  classes  lield  and  conducted  by  regularly  established  instructors  in 
dancing.  The  fee  for  such  permit  shall  be  $1  for  each  dance,  or  $15 
for  such  annual  permit. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  whom  a  dance  hall 
license  is  issued,  or  f(n'  any  person  conducting  a  public  dance  hall  or 
dancing  class  under  permit  from  the  city,  to  allow  or  permit  in  any 
dance  hall  any  indecent  act  to  be  committed  or  any  disorder  or  con- 
duct of  a  gross,  violent,  or  vulgar  character,  or  to  permit  in  any  such 
dance  hall  any  known  prostitute,  i)imp,  or  procurer.  Any  member 
of  the  police  and  detective  departments,  or  inspector  of  dance  halls, 
or  other  i)roperly  constituted  authority,  shall  have  the  power,  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  of  them,  to  cause  any  danc«  hall  to  be 
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VENERl'IAL   DISEASE   ORDINANCES.  23 

vacated  whenever  any  provi^^ion  of  this  ordinance,  or  of  any  ordi- 
nance, regulation,  or  law  concerning  dance  halls  has  been  or  is  being 
violated,  or  whereiii  any  ordinance,  regulation,  or  law  of  any  char- 
acter shall  be  violated,  or  whenever  any  indecent  act  shall  be  com- 
mitted, or  when  any  disorder  or  conduct  of  a  gross,  violent,  or  vulgar 
character  shall  take  place  therein,  or  any  known  prostitute,  piuip, 
or  procurer  be  found  to  be  present  in  such  place,  j 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to  peruiit  anj-^  person,  who  has  not 
reached  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  to  attend  or  remain  at  any  public 
dance,  unless  such  person  be  accompanied  by  the  parent  or  legal 
guardian  of  such  pcrsou.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  rep-< 
resent  himself  or  herself  to  have  reached  the  age  of  eighteen  years 
in  order  to  attend  or  remain  at  any  public  dance,  when  such  person 
in  fact  is  under  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for 
any  person  to  falsely  represent  himself  or  herself  to  be  a  parent  or 
legal  guardian  of  any  person  in  order  that  such  person  may  attend 
or  remain  in  any  public  dance. 

Sec.  7.  All  public  dances  shall  be  discontinued  and  all  public  dance 
halls  shall  be  closed  on  or  before  the  hour  of  twelve  o'clock  p.  m. 

Sec.  8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  known  prostitute,  male  or 
female  procurer,  or  vagrant  to  be  present  at  any  public  dance  or  at 
an}^  public  dance  hall. 

Sec.  9.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  person  conducting  a  public 
dance  to  discriminate  between  the  sexes  as  to  the  amount  of  admission 
fee. 

Sec.  10.  The  admission  fee  shall  entitle  any  person  paying  the  same 
to  participate  in  all  dancing  and  no  separate  or  individual  fee  shall 
be  charged  or  collected  for  participation  in  any  individual  dance. 
No  pass-out  or  return  checks  shall  be  issued  and  persons  leaving  the 
dance  hall  and  its  anterooms  shall  not  be  readmitted  thereto  except 
upon  pa3'^ment  of  the  regular  admission  fee. 

Sec.  11.  a  competent  inspector  of  dance  halls  shall  be  api^ointed, 
\yhose  duty  it  shall  be  to  examine  all  applications  for  dance-hall 
licenses,  and  who  shall  investigate  each  application  to  determine 
whether  or  not  the  dance  hall  seeking  to  be  licensed  conforms  with 
the  regidations,  ordii\ances,  and  laws  applicable  thereto.  The  find- 
ings of  the  inspector  shall  be  made  in  writing  and  shall  be  accom- 
panied by  a  reconnnendation  as  to  wliether  a  license  should  be 
granted  or  refused.  Such  inspector  shall  be  permitted  to  have  access 
to  all  public  dance  halls  and  all  public  dances  at  all  times.  He  shall 
investigate  complaints  and  shall  inspect  at  least  once  in  every  month 
the  dance  halls  within  the  city.  Such  inspector  sliall  be  charged  with 
the  enforcement  of  this  ordinance  and  shall  have,  when  desired,  tho 

assistance  of  any  department  of  the  government  of  the  city  of • 

in  performing  any  of  the  duties  delegated  to  him  by  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  12.  The  term  "  public  dance  "  as  used  in  this  ordinance  shall 
mean  any  dance  to  which  admission  can  be  had  by  payment  directly 
or  indirectly  of  a  fee,  or  any  dance  to  which  the  public  generally 
may  gain  admission  with  or  without  the  payment  of  a  fee.  The  temi 
"  public  dance  hall  "  as  used  herein  shall  mean  any  rcw)Ui,  |)lace,  or 
space  in  which  a  public  dance  shall  be  held  or  in  which  classes 
in  dancing  are  held  and  instruction  in  dauciiig  is  given  for  hire. 
The  term  "  known  "  used  in  connection  with  the  words  '"  prostitute.'' 


24  VElsTEEEAL   DISEASE    ORDINANCES. 

or  "  male  or  female  procurer,"  or  vagrant,  shall  mean  known  to  the 
manager,  owner,  or  lessee  of  a  jDublic  dance  hall,  or  to  the  person 
conducting  a  public  dance,  or  to  the  police  or  other  authorities  hav- 
ing to  do  v\-ith  regulation  or  supervision  of  public  dance  halls  or 
public  dances  to  be  one  of  the  persons  named,  or  who  has  such  repu- 
tation or  character,  or  one  who  has  pleaded  guilty  to  or  has  been 
convicted  of  being  a  prostitute,  male  or  female  procurer,  or  vagrant. 
The  word  "  person ''  shall  mean  and  include  natural  persons,  copart- 
nerships, corporations,  and  associations,  and  shall  include  both  sexes. 
Sec.  13.  The  person  desiring  a  license  to  keep  and  conduct  a  public 
dance  hall  shall  use  the  following  form  of  application : 

Application  City  of ,  State  of , 

,  19__. 

The  undersigned  hereby  makes  application  for  a  license  lo  keep  and  conduct 

a  public  dance  hall  at Street,  city  of , 

State  of ,  from  date  of  issuance  of  license  to  and  includ- 
ing    ,   19__.      It  is  hereby   expressly   agreed   that   in   the 

event  that  this  license  shall  be  issued  that  said  dance  hall  shall  be  conducted 
in  strict  accord  with  the  provisions  of  law  regulating  public  dance  halls,  and 
the  undersigned  agrees  that  the  license  is  given  and  accepted  subject  to  the 
provisions  of  this  application  and  that  he  shall  be  held  responsible  for  violation 
of  any  provision  of  law  or  ordinance  regulating  public  dauce  halls. 

The  undersigned  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Jiall  located  at  the  above  address, 
application  for  keeping  and  conducting  a  public  dance  hall  in  which  is  hereby 
made. 


i  Sig-nature  of  the  applicant.) 
(  Street  address  of  applicant.) 


Sec.  14.  The  person  desiring  a  permit  to  hold  a  public  dance  shall 
use  the  following  form  of  application : 


AlPplication  City  of ,  State  of 


The  undersigned  hereby  makes  application   for  a   permit  to  give  a   public 

dance  at  No, , Street, on 

the   day   of   ,   19—      It   is   hereby 

expressly  agreed  that  sjiid  dance  shall  be  conducted  in  strict  accord  with  the 
provisions  of  law  regulating  public  dances,  and  tlie  undersigned  agrees  that  the 
permit  is  given  and  accepted  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  application  and 
that  he  shall  be  b.eld  responsible  for  any  violation  of  any  provision  of  law  or 
ordinance  regulating  such  public  dance. 

The   owner  or  lessee  of   the  premises   in    which    such  dance   is   to  be   lu'ld 

is , , 

(Name.)  (Occupation.)  (.Street.) 

Name 

Address 

Sec.  15.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  punish.ed   by   fine  not  to 

exceed    dollars   or   by    imprisonment   not   to 

exceed days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment. 


ORDINANCE  E. 

AN  ORDINANCE  REQUIRING  HOTEL  AND  ROOMING  HOUSE  OWN- 
ERS' NAMES  TO  BE  POSTED  ON  THE  PREMISES— THE  "TIN- 
PLATE  "  LAW. 

The  just  criticism  is  often  made  that  property  owned  by  prominent 
members  of  the  community  is  used  for  purposes  of  prostitution.  In 
a  few  instances  estates  being  probated  consist  of  scattered  parcels 
of  property,  and  it  is  not  unusual  for  a  house  owned  by  the  heirs 
to  be  used  for  unlawful  purposes  without  the  knowledge  of  such 
heirs.  But  generally  the  owners,  and  always  the  agents,  of  prop- 
erty are  aware  of  the  use  made  thereof,  and  in  any  event  they 
should  interest  themselves  in  the  disposition  of  property  from  which 
they  derive  an  income.  No  man  should  permit  such  use  to  be  made 
of  his  property  as  to  cause  him  to  be  ashamed  of  acknowledging 
ownership  of  such  property. 

Good  results  have  been  achieved  in  cities  w^here  the  so-called 
"  tin-plate  ordinance "  is  being  enforced.  Many  owners  will  be 
more  particular  in  selecting  tenants  if  the  name  of  the  owner  is 
placed  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  premises.  No  valid  objection 
can  be  urged  against  the  enforcement  of  this  ordinance. 

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ORDINANCE  E. 

An  Ordinance  Requiring  the  names  aud  addresses  of  owners  of  hotels,  apart- 
ment houses,  and  lodging  houses  to  be  posted  thereon  In  a  conspicuous  nxan- 
n«.',  and  providing  a  penalty  for  violations. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  For  the  purpose  of  this  ordinance,  any  structure  shall 
be  deemed  a  hotel,  apartment  house,  or  lodging  house,  according  to 
the  nature  thereof,  when  the  total  number  of  occupants  of  all  rooms 
rented  therein  is  two  or  more. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner  of  any  property  used  as 
a  hotel,  apartment  house,  or  lodging  house  to  post  a  metal  sign  con- 
taining the  name  and  address  of  the  owner,  plainly  written  or  printed 
in  English,  beside  or  above  the  principal  entrance  thereof  in  such 
a  manner  as  to  be  easily  read  by  passers-by. 

Sec.  3.  If  any  such  property  be  owned  by  more  than  one  pereon, 
then  such  sign  shall  contain  the  name  and  address  of  each,  and  each 
owner  shall  be  liable  to  prosecution  hereunder  for  failure  to  post 
such  sign. 

Sec.  4.  If  any  such  property  is  owned  by  a  corporation  or  joint- 
stock  association,  then  the  sign  shall  contain  the  name  and  post-office 
address  of  such  corporation  or  association,  and  also  the  names  and 
addresses  of  the  president  and  secretary  thereof. 

Sec.  5.  If  any  such  property  be  owned  by  a  nonresident  or  by  non- 
residents, then  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  agent  of  such  owner  or 
owners  to  post  such  sign.  The  name  and  address  of  the  agent  shall 
be  included  on  said  sign. 

Sec.  6.  If  the  owner  or  owners  are  nonresidents,  and  there  be  no 
resident  agent  for  any  such  property,  then  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
manager  or  other  person  operating  any  such  hotel,  apartment  house, 
or  lodging  house  to  post  such  sign. 

Sec.  7.   (Penalty  clause.) 

Sec.  8.   (Emergency  clause.) 

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ORDINANCE  F. 

AN  ORDINANCE  PROHIBITING  ADVERTISEMENT  OF  VENEREAL 
DISEASE  NOSTRUMS. 

To  achieve  success  in  combating  venereal  disease  it  is  indispensable 
that  Gveiy  infected  person  receive  proper  scientific  treatment.  Thi?? 
can  only  be  administered  by  a  physician  trained  in  this  particular 
line  of  work. 

In  tracing  the  historj^  of  improperly  treated  cases  of  venereal  di  - 
ease  the  investigator  discovers  that  in  most  instances  the  patient 
either  purchased  "sure cure"  highly  advertised  remedies  for  self- 
treatment  or  was  induced  to  place  himself  under  the  dubious  care  of 
a  quack  whose  advertisement  c-ame  to  his  attention.  Both  methods 
proved  disastrous.  It  is  manifestly  disastrous  to  treat  chronic,  acute, 
and  complicated  cases,  in  thousands  of  persons,  with  the  same  con- 
coction. Dire  results  come  to  the  attention  of  the  practitioner  from 
the  use  of  these  nostrums  by  patients.  Each  case  should  receive  the 
constant  attention  of  one  qualified  and  experienced  in  the  treatment 
of  venereal  diseases.  The  Government  and  many  States  have  mado 
available  hospitals  and  clinics  to  provide  treatment  for  sucli  perso'^s 
as  can  not  afford  a  private  phj^sician. 

As  a  general  rule,  the  doctor  who  advertises  his  specialty  of  treat- 
ing venereal  diseases  is  a  quack.  He  is  not  interested  in  curing  tha 
unfortunate  who  falls  into  his  trap.  His  only  motive  is  to  exploit 
the  misfortune  and  desire  for  secrecy  of  the  victim. 

The  injustice  of  it  all  is  not  always  confined  to  the  original  victim. 
He  either  imagines  himself  cured  after  using  the  advertised  nostrums 
or  is  told  by  the  quack,  when  his  mone}^  is  all  gone,  that  a  complete, 
cure  has  been  effected.  Relying  upon  this,  he  marries  and  brings 
untold  misery  to  himself  and  loved  ones.  In  many  cases  the  wife 
becomes  infected  and  gives  birth  to  defective  children  or  children 
that  become  blind  from  infection  received  at  birth. 

In  some  instances  it  is  necessary  to  perform  dangerous  operations 
upon  the  wife,  which  leave  her  mutilated  or  an  invalid  for  life. 

The  business  of  the  quack  and  venereal-disease  remedy  peddler  aro 
sustained  only  by  permitting  them  to  advertise.  States  that  forbid 
advertising  have  witnessed  a  general  exodus  of  quacks  and  also  a 
decrease  in  the  quantity  of  nostrums  sold,  with  a  corresponding  in- 
crease in  the  patronage  of  free  clinics  and  reputable  physicians. 

This  ordinance  is  strongly  urged  for  all  cities  that  have  no  legis- 
lation adequately  covering  this  most  important  phase  of  venereal- 
disease  control. 

2T 


ORDINANCE  F. 

An  Ordinance  To  prohibit  the  advertisement  of  cures  for  lost  manhood  and 
venereal  diseases  and  cures  of  similar  nature,  and  providing  a  penalty. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  No  per^ion  shall  publish  or  cause  to  be  published  any 
advertisement  intended  to  imply  or  to  be  understood  that  he  will 
restore  manly  vigor,  treat  or  cure  lost  manhood,  lost  power,  stricture, 
gonorrhea,  clironic  discharges,  gleet,  varicocele,  chancroid,  syphilis, 
or  private  diseases,  nor  shall  any  person  advertise  any  medicine, 
medicinal  preparation,  remedy,  or  prescription  for  any  of  the  ail- 
ments or  diseases  above  enumerated.  Any  owner  or  managing  officer 
of  any  newspaper  in  whose  paper  shall  be  printed  or  published  any 
such  advei'tisement  as  above  described  shall  be  guilty  of  a  violation 
of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  post,  stick,  or  affix  in  any  way  on  any  sur- 
face in  the  city  of any  sign,  sticker,  or  poster  containing  any 

such  advertisement,  nor  shall  any  person  pass  out  or  distribute  any 
handbill,  circular,  card,  or  object  containing  any  such  advertisement 
or  intended  to  advertise  a  cure  or  remedy  for  any  such  disease  or 
ailment  listed  above. 

Sec.  3.  No  person  sl\all  permit  or  allovv^  any  advertisement  of  the 
character  above  described  to  be  posted  or  affixed  in  any  manner  upon 
any  property  owned  or  controlled  by  him,  nor  display  any  adver- 
tisement or  object  of  any  kind  whatsoever  intended  to  advertise  a 
cure  or  remedy  or  preparation  intended  for  use  in  treatment  for  any 
disease  or  ailment  above  listed. 

Sec.  4.  The  word  "  person  "  as  used  herein  shall  mean  and  include 
natural  persons,  copartnership,  corporations,  and  associations,  and 
shall  include  persons  of  both  sexes. 

Sec.  5.   (Penalty  clause.) 

Sec.  6.   (Emergency.) 

Note. — 1.  Laws  making  -unlavrful  the  advertising  of  venereal  cures  are  constitutional 
and  within  the  police  power. 

state  r.  Hollinshead,  77  Oreg.,  473  ;  1.'31  Pac,  710. 
People  V.  Kennedy,  176  Mich.,  384. 

2.  Seetioa  2095  Lord's  Oregon  Laws  denouncing  the  offense  of  advertising  venei-eal 
cures  is  constitutional  as  a  valid  exercise  of  the  police  power  of  the  State,  since  it  Is 
against  public  policy  to  allow  interested  individuals  to  disseminate  the  notion  that  sexual 
disease  is  easily  and  cheaply  cured,  as  tending  to  desti'oy  a  restraint  on  immorality. 

State  V.  Hollinshead,  supra. 

3.  For  many  years  it  has  been  recognized  by  publicists  and  legislators  that  some  drastic 
action  is  necessary  to  check  certain  social  evils  and  to  protect  youthful  and  inexperienced 
humanity,  not  only  from  easy  access  to  vicious  and  immoral  practices  but  also  from  the 
sclieme  of  designing  men,  vvho,  for  the  sake  of  financial  profit,  would  prey  upon  the 
calamities  of  the  unfortunates  who  have  sowed  the  wind  and  reaped  the  whirlwind. 

State  V.  Hollinshead,  supra. 

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ORDINANCE  G. 

THE  RESTAURANT  AND  GRILL  BOOTH  ORDINANCE. 

This  ordinance  illustrates  what  vigilance  is  necessary  in  a  well- 
organized  community  to  protect  its  citizens  against  neAv  methods  of 
carrying  on  proetitution.  It  is  not  submitted  with  the  idea  of  urging 
its  i^assage  in  the  present  form  in  all  cities.  The  evil  sought  to  be 
remedied  by  its  provisions  were  particularly  aggravating  in  several 
sections  of  the  country,  and  it  is  recommended  to  communities  simi- 
larly situated. 

In  certain  cities  recurring  complaint  was  made  that  in  "  chop 
suey  "  places  and  in  other  types  of  refreshment  places  the  boxes,  par- 
titions, and  booths  made  favorable  places  of  solicitation  and  opera- 
tion for  pimps  and  prostitutes.  By  requiring  the  partitions  to  be  re- 
moved the  entire  establishment  was  thrown  open  to  public  gaze  and 
opportunity  of  unlawful  acts  destroyed. 

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ORDINANCE  G. 

An  Ordinance  Prohibiting  the  maintenance  of  booths  and  boxes  in  restaurants, 
gi-ills.  and  other  public  places,  providing  a  penalty  for  the  violation  tliereof, 
and  declaring  an  emergency. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows: 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  construct,  erect, 
set  up,  conduct,  keep,  manage,  operate,  or  cause  to  be  constructed, 
erected,  set  up,  conducted,  kept,  managed,  or  operated,  any  box, 
booth,  or  other  similar  inclosure  of  such  nature  that  the  occupants  are 
concealed  from  the  view  of  the  general  patrons  in  any  restaurant, 
grill,  eating  place,  drinking  place,  refreshment  parlor,  or  other  place 
where  food  or  refreshments  are  sold  or  served. 

Sec.  2.  For  the  purpose  of  this  ordinance  the  word  "  person  "  shall 
mean  and  include  natural  persons,  firms,  copartnerships,  corpora- 
tions, and  associations,  and  shall  include  persons  of  both  sexes. 

Sec.  3.  Where  a  restaurant,  grille,  eating  place,  drinking  place, 
refreshment  parlor,  or  other  place  where  food  or  refreshments  are 
sold  or  served  is  OAvned  by  any  corporation,  association,  or  copart- 
nership any  person  having  charge,  management,  or  control  of  such 
restaurant,'  grill,  eating  place,  drinking  place,  refreshment  parlor, 
or  other  place  where  food  or  refreshments  are  sold  or  served  shall  be 
liable  to  prosecution  for  any  violation  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance, upon  conviction  thereof  in  the  municipal  court,  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  to  exceed  $500  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  city 

jail  of  the  city  of not  to  exceed  six  months,  or  by  both  such 

fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  5.  Inasmuch  as  this  ordinance  is  necessary  for  the  immediate 
preservation  of  the  public  health,  peace,  and  safety  of  the  city  of 

in  this,  that  boxes  and  booths  in  many  rastaurants  and  grills 

in  the  city  of  are  being  used  for  the  purpose  of  soliciting 

prostitution,  now,  therefore,  an  emergency  is  hereby  declared  to  exist 
and  this  ordinance  shall  be  in  force  and  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage  by  the  council, 
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ORDINANCE  H. 

AN  ORDINANCE  PROHIBITING  THE  SALE  OF  VENEREAL-DISEASB 
MEDICINES  EXCEPT  ON  PRESCRIPTION- 

There  are  manifest  reasons  in  the  general  program  of  combating 
venereal  diseases  for  legislation  prohibiting  the  sales  of  medicines 
intended  for  use  in  the  treatment  of  venereal  diseases  except  upon 
prescription  of  a  physician  licensed  to  practice  medicine  in  tha 
State.  All  the  reasons  given  in  explanation  of  Ordinance  F  apply 
to  Ordinance  H.  In  communities  where  no  regulation  has  been  at- 
tempted of  quacks  and  medicine  peddlers  are  found  many  fakers  who 
cater  exclusively  to  the  unfortunates  infected  Avith  venereal  diseases. 
A  certain  low-grade  druggist,  located  in  the  slums  of  the  large  cities, 
likewise  finds  it  profitable  to  cater  to  this  class  of  trade.  So-called 
Chinese  doctors  and  medicine  stores  reap  a  harvest  in  selling  soup 
made  from  cooked  herbs,  which  are  drunk  on  the  premises  with  a 
belief  by  the  patient  that  it  is  destroying  the  syphilitic  parasite  h\ 
his  blood. 

In  addition  to  the  robbery  of  the  poor,  deluded  sufferer,  a  greater 
harm  is  done  by  delaying  or  permanently  postponing  proper  treat- 
ment. 

In  answer  to  an  appeal  by  the  Government,  thousands  of  reputable 
druggists  throughout  the  country  have  voluntarily  agreed  not  to  dis- 
pense any  venereal  disease  medicines  except  on  prescription  of  a  physi- 
cian. These  druggists  realize  the  necessity  of  scientific  medical  care 
in  treating  venereal  diseases,  and  they  welcome  legislation  requiring 
the  unscrupulous  medicine  peddlers  to  do  likewise. 

The  question  arises  as  to  what  medicines  or  preparations  an  ordi- 
nance of  this  character  is  intended  to  cover.  Every  drug  and  prepa- 
ration whose  manufacturers  allege  that  it  is  a  remedy,  or  a  cure,  or 
a  relief  in  cases  of  venereal  diseases,  every  preparation  that  has  adver- 
tising matter  alleging  similar  facts,  are  within  the  scope  of  this  ordi- 
nance. There  are  certain  elementary  drugs  that  have  a  wide  and 
varied  use  in  the  treatment  of  bodily  ills  that  are  beyond  the  scope  of 
this  ordinance. 

This  law  was  enacted  as  a  statute  by  the  State  of  Utah  at  the  1919 

session  of  its  legislature. 

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ORDINANCE  H. 

An  Ordinance  To  prohibit  the  sale  of  any  medicine,  drug,  or  preparation  for 
the  cure  of  venereal  diseases*,  except  upon  the  prescription  of  a  physician,  and 
providing  a  penalty  for  violations  thereof. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  sell  or  give  to 
any  person  any  medicine,  drug,  remedy,  or  preparation  for  the  relief, 
cure,  or  treatment  of  syphilis,  gonorrhea,  or  chancroid  except  upon 
the  original  written  prescription  of  a  regularly  licensed  and  prac- 
ticing physician  of  the  State  of  — ,  and  no  such  prescription 

shall  be  refilled. 

Sec.  2.   (Penalty.) 

Sec.  3.   (Emergency.) 
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ORDINANCE  I, 

MASSAGE  PARLOR  ORDINANCE. 

From  many  cities  comes  the  complaint  that,  under  the  guise  of 
bath  and  m^assage  parlors,  prostitutes  ply  their  disease-spreading 
vocation,  and  it  is  difficult  to  obtain  evidence  sufficient  to  convict. 
Many  of  the  women  operating  these  places  also  carry  on  disgusting 
practices  of  sexual  pei'version. 

It  should  be  understood  that  this  ordinance  is  not  directed  against 
the  various  cults  that  treat  disease  and  infirmities.  Eeputable  practi- 
tioners of  these  schools  will  welcome  legislation  of  this  character 
when  they  understand  its  purpose.  One  clause  of  the  ordinance 
specifically  exempts  from  operation  thereof  "  any  person  who  prac- 
tices the  science  of  healing  in  a  manner  recognized  and  authorized 
by  the  State  of ." 

By  limiting  the  license  to  persons  of  good  moral  character  the 
city  can  scrutinize  carefully  the  qualifications  of  each  applicant.  By 
forbidding  the  giving  of  baths  and  massage  treatments  by  different 
sexes,  the  woman  who  operates  a  house  of  prostitution  under  the 
guise  of  a  massage  parlor  will  be  deprived  of  opportunity  of  con- 
tinuing her  unlawful  vocation. 

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ORDINANCE  I, 

An  Ordinance  Regulating  massage  parlors  and  bathhouses. 

The  city  of does  ordain  as  follows : 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  conduct  a  place 
where  baths,  body  massage,  vibratory,  or  magnetic  treatments  are 

given  w^ithout  first  obtaining  a  license  from  the  city  of so  to 

do,  and  no  license  shall  be  issued  except  to  persons  of  good  moral 
character,  and  who  shall  be  qualified  to  engage  in  such  business. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  desiring  to  conduct  any  such  business  shall 
make  application  to  the  (license  inspector  or  other  license- 
granting  official)  of  the  city  of setting  forth  the  location  of 

such  proposed  place  of  business  and  shall  furnish  evidence  of  good 
moral  character,  and  in  addition  thereto  shall  set  forth  the  qualifi- 
cations possessed  by  the  applicant  to  engage  in  the  business  for 
which  a  license  is  sought.    The  application  shall  be  accompanied  by 

a  certificate  signed  by  three  proj)erty  owners  of  the  city  of , 

that  the  applicant  is  a  person  of  good  moral  character. 

Sec.  3.  The  annual  license  fee  shall  be  the  sum  of dollars. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  whom  a  license  is 
issued  as  herein  provided  or  any  person  employed  in  such  establish- 
ment, to  give  or  permit  the  giving  of  any  baths,  massage,  rubs,  or 
treatments  to  a  person  of  the  opposite  sex  from  that  of  the  person 
giving  such  bath  or  massage. 

Sec.  5.  The  word  person  as  herein  contained  shall  mean  and  in- 
clude natural  persons,  corporations,  copartnerships,  and  associations. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  to  whom  the  license  is 
issued  to  post  same  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  premises  to  which 
such  license  relates. 

Sec.  7.  The  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  any  per- 
son practicing  the  science  of  healing  in  a  manner  recognized  and 
authorized  by  the  State  of 

Sec.  8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to  engage  in  or  permit  any  prostitu- 
tion, lewdness,  or  assignation  to  be  carried  on  in  the  premises  to 
which  such  license  relates. 

Sec.  9.  Violation  of  any  provision  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  suffi- 
cient ground  for  the  revocation  of  such  license  in  addition  to  the 
penalty  imposed  for  such  violation. 

Sec.  10.  Any  person  convicted  of  violating  the  provisions  of  this 

ordinance  shall  be  punished  by  fine  of  not  exceeding dollars  or 

by  imprisonment  not  to  exceed days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 

imprisonment. 

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ADDITIONAL  ORDINANCES. 

The  public  has  the  right  to  be  protected,  against  venereally  in- 
fected persons  engaged  in  any  occupation  the  nature  of  whose  em- 
ployment makes  it  likely  that  they  would  transmit  their  infection  to 
others.  The  Public  Health  Service  does  not  desire  to  recommend  in 
detail  ordinances  of  this  nature,  but  only  invites  attention  of  local 
officers  to  the  fact  that  certain  conditions  in  their  community  may 
warrant  the  passing  of  ordinances  designed  to  give  additional  pro- 
tection to  citizens  of  the  community.  Many  cities  and  several  States 
have  passed  laws  regulating  the  employment  of  persons  engaged  in 
establishments  where  food  or  drink  is  prepared,  or  sold.  The  States 
of  Illinois,  Missouri,  Nebraska,  and  New  Jersey  forbid  the  employ- 
ment of  venereally  infected  persons  in  food  establishments.  The 
State  of  Mississippi  prohibits  the  employment  of  venereally  dis- 
eased persons  in  any  occupation  the  nature  of  which  is  such  that 
their  infection  is  likely  to  be  transmitted  to  others.  The  State  of 
Michigan  passed  a  law  on  March  20,  1919,  making  it  unlawful  for 
any  person  who  is  infected  with  venereal  disease  or  any  other  con- 
tagious disease  in  a  communicable  form  to  work  in  any  place  where 
food  or  drink  is  prepared  or  offered  for  sale.  The  Michigan  law 
gives  the  city  health  officer  of  the  community  the  right  to  require  all 
such  employees  to  submit  to  a  physical  examination,  and  prescribes 
a  penalty  both  for  the  employee  and  employer  for  a  violation  of  the 
law.  This  phase  of  the  question  is  not  submitted  with  definite  recom- 
mendations on  the  part  of  the  Public  Health  Service,  but  merely  for 
the  consideration  of  local  authorities. 

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CONCLUSION. 

From  various  portions  of  the  country  come  reports  of  peculiar  local 
conditions  wherein  prostitution  finds  expression  in  different  forms. 
Many  moving-picture  houses  have  become  a  haven  for  the  erstwhile 
street  walker,  where,  under  shield  of  darkness,  she  carries  on  solicita- 
tion. Grills  and  cabarets  that  cater  to  the  disorderly  element  also 
provide  a  link  between  prostitutes  and  their  customers.  Permitting 
young  boys  and  girls  to  be  about  on  the  streets  at  late  hours  without 
escort  gives  opportunity  for  developments  of  a  particularly  unde- 
sirable type.  There  are  other  forms,  too  numerous  to  mention,  that 
require  constant,  energetic,  and  earnest  vigilance  on  the  part  of  the 
law-enforcing  officials  of  your  city.  No  matter  v^^hich  way  or  in  what 
form  prostitution  seeks  an  outlet  you  must  be  ready  to  com.bat  it.  Your 
city  attorneys  or  legal  officials  can  draw  proper  ordinances  to  cover 
every  phase  of  the  problem  as  presented.  If  unable  to  secure  such 
cooperation,  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service  will,  when 
placed  in  possession  of  the  facts,  prepare  such  law. 


DO  NOT  DESTROY — 

When  you  have  no  further  use  for  this 
pamphlet  give  it  to  some  one  else. 


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